I stood in the lobby of the Falcon Theater in Toluca Lake, and looked at Twitter while I waited for the rest of the guys to arrive. The walls were covered with posters from productions like CHiPs: The Musical and It's A Stevie Wonderful Life. Being in a theater during the day, when it's just a b...

I mentioned this on Twitter, but as Twitter has grown and grown (congrats, Biz and Ev!) it's become very "in the moment" and not the best place to put very important things like this: There's a page on Facebook that appears to be mine. The problem with this is that I don't use Facebook, and I do...

Math IS hard you know.
For the most part, we get taught math by folks who don't really get math themselves. So all they do is use the teacher's edition of the textbook and make us memorize rules, and we become formula-plugger-iners. Hard to break the cycle since our teachers were taught this way too. Folks good at math do not generally become school teachers. They did the math and figured out that teachers just don't make that much money for the time invested.

Yesterday, I wrote: Well, the power just went out, so it's time for me to pack up my Mac and head out to a cafe with WiFi where I can work on my novel in front of people and get this posted. The weird thing is, while it's likely going to take an hour at least from the time I finish writing this...